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What a coincidence! One of my friends has an old Dell laptop as well, and when he pulls the power cable out the battery may as well not have a battery as it dies instantly. This gives him a few hard drive problems (eg updates messing up sometimes) but nothing serious (yet). Both my HPs have duff batteries, one dies after 30 seconds, th other dies after 15 minutes :P

Hard drive is starting to fail

Hard Drive PCB failHi guys. Ex top rated Ubuntu forum guy here. I had my sata HDD in a USB caddy, but then the power supply went out.
Apparently, the PCB is dead now because of the power surge. I need to access my files but I cannot. Urgent help please! Is there a way I can manually fix the PCB and detect its...

Hardware & Devices

SMART Event ocurred saying the hard drive may fail. What should I do?It seems every thread I start, I always begin by saying i'm sorry if I put this on the wrong section...so let's just skip that part xD
Anyway, my friends laptop (which has different specs from that one, a 2,4ghz dual core, a 9M series GPU and 4gb RAM) started getting this SMART event ocurred...

Hardware & Devices

Optical drive clicks twice when starting video on hard drive-Almost new Inspiron 5720- Home Premium. i7 quad.
After installing three or four updates yesterday my laptop now clicks the optical drive a couple of times as I start any video or music file on the hard drive. Not a fatal flaw, but, very irritating just the same. Did a system restore to the...

Music, Pictures & Video

Epic SATA Hard Drive FAIL! CCleaner...Hi all!
I had some serious problems with my SATA Hard Drives last night...
I used CCleaner last night to do a "Disk Wipe" of the free space on my System and Secondary SATA disks. I also deleted random registry errors, backing up my reg to my (Secondary) Maxtor 160Gb HDD, ironically... and...

Hardware & Devices

Accidentally changed hard drive with OS to dynamic drive.startup fail.Hi. My laptop is Acer with Windows 7 home premium 64 bit OS.
It contain only 1 single partition disk that is c drive only.
Recently, i accidentally convert the c drive which contain OS into dynamic disk.
After i restart the laptop, it shows the following:
BootMgr is missing
Please press Alt,...

Installation & Setup

Hard drive fail?When i'm using my computer and sometimes on start up my hard drive will make this repeating ticking sound...(tick, tick, tick, tick) and freeze up the computer.
Then when the hard drive stops the sound the computer will return to its normal state.
Is this a hard drive fail? Will i have to...